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  • Nagaland State’s Power Conundrum
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | February 24People crave easy fixes: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. However, a solution requires numerous small steps, no slipups, no goof ups and every
  • Curious. Friendly. Helpful.
    German football trainer shares his experience at St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama  Morung Express Feature Kohima | February 16Sixty-six year old Robert Begerau, a former football trainer and psychologi
  • Board Exams versus ‘Joy of Learning’
    Naro LongcharKohima | February 15With the NBSE Class 10 board examinations underway, thousands of students across Nagaland state are feeling the immense societal pressure and expectation to perform well. For mo
  • Nagaland: whose development, whose freedom?
    Abokali JimomiDimapur | February 14What is the meaning of development? Is increase in income the purpose of development? Who defines development for us and for whose benefit?  According to Economist and No
  • NAGALAND HEALTHCARE: Needing Human solutions
    Abokali JimomiZunheboto | February 12Even the best physicians need light to see in the dark, unless they wear futuristic night-vision goggles. To save a dying patient, they require much more. Beside knowledge,
  • When ‘Enough is Enough’ is not enough
    Vibi YhokhaNew Delhi | February 3An April 2003 report of the Human Genome Project suggests that every human on earth is 99.9% identical. Of the 0.1%, only 10-15% account for differences we see between races of
  • Kholar—the economic pulse of the east
    Ashikho PfuzheShamator-Chessore | February 2They may not swear by it but this small bean has been the ‘manna’ to generations of the Yimchungrü Naga tribe living in Tuensang and Kiphire districts and on the
  • What is Nagaland State’s economic output?
    Abokali JimomiDimapur | February 2Throughout the human being’s existence on earth, the general belief is that each person aspires to lead a happy life. Living consists of engaging in daily activities or the l
  • ‘Our society is modern, we are not’
    Fifty years since Statehood, Nagas continue to be challenged by the question of modernityVibi YhokhaKohima | January 29Modernity, in the words of Dipankar Gupta in Mistaken Modernity, is described as “an atti
  • Artisan Ancestors’ Heart and Soul
    Cheap, Shiny Imitation vs Moldy Original Abokali JimomiDimapur | January 24If you visit some villages that have salvaged traditional objects from the pre/post colonial village-burnings, you will discover m
  • 50 years on, Farmers pushed to the margin
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | January 2365-year-old, widowed, with her children having left her, Honglin Khiamniungan from Thang village in Tuensang district has only her grains as security. Still able to cultiv
  • Corruption, a loss of value system—I
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | January 11A hundred years ago, narrates grassroots entrepreneur Abokali Jimomi, if you found a honeycomb in a forest, you marked it as yours and went back home to sleep in peace. No
  • WALKING THE PILGRIM PATH
    DABA youths’ retrace the footsteps of missionary Rev. Dr E.W Clark Morung Express FeatureDimapur | January 11 If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. Th
  • Rising above violence: from people, to people
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | January 8The young and old of the Karbi and Rengma communities have geared up to bring peace to the land, even as it seemed evasive at a point of time. And peace efforts, say elders
  • Gariphema - a tale of unity and camaraderie
    Vibi Yhokha & Victor DzüvichüKohima | January 7Nestled 54 km away from the Nagaland State capital is the village of Gariphema, well known to many as the birthplace of the revivalist movement in Nagaland a
  • Naga woman excels in auto industry
    Renthungo OdyuoDimapur | January 5Elilo Lotha is a 35 year old mother of four, who has made major headways into the automobile sector, an industry mostly dominated by men.  She is currently the Proprietor
  • Transforming lives, Transforming Nagaland
    Bethesda Centre: A social institution with a differenceRenthungo OdyuoDimapur | January 3A leader groomed through experiences, he has transformed the social fabric of the Naga society. At the age of 27, W Cheni
  • The true dignity of labor
    Longrangty LongcharMokokchung | June 28Imagine a life dedicated to cleaning garbage in town barehanded, without a facemask or proper footwear for the past twenty-nine years. Such is the life of a Municipal soli
  • Longwa Rising
    With NAIP underway, Longwa breathes with new agricultural practices and cottage industries. A promise of a better future. Sidrah Fatma AhmedLongwa | June 27Manpoh Konyak (35) is a resident of Longwa, Mon D
  • ‘Naga music scene is going to grow’
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | June 27Naga music scene is going to grow, according to Jack Thomas, Director of Rockschool India which is part of an international music exam board from the UK. Thomas is a member o
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